48 Minutes with Feld

A few days ago Brad Feld was in town speaking on a panel at the IP & Entrepreneurship Symposium here at the Boalt School of Law at Berkeley.  Being a fan of his blog I signed up to attend.

The evening before the conference I emailed Brad and asked if he wanted to go on a run Friday morning before the conference.  I won't lie, I felt a bit creepy/stalker-ish, but he emailed back and said yes.

Nothing like a 6 AM run through the streets of Berkeley and campus.  After a refreshing, pitch-black walk over to his hotel at 5:30am or so, we met up and set off.

"Thanks for reaching out", he said in response to my asking him to go on a run.

"Thanks for not calling the cops", I should have replied.

Anyway, the run lasted 48 minutes or so, as I gave him the grand tour of Berkeley and campus and back to his hotel.

We had one of the most interesting and entertaining conversations I have had in a long time.  We talked on so many different topics, ranging from the Web and entrepreneurship to foreign policy and American sentiment now and during the Vietnam War era.

There was never a dull moment and I was a bit sad when it had to end.  Brad is an incredibly interesting and fun person; certainly atypical of other VCs I've met.  

Thanks for reaching back, Brad.

Tiddlywinks, apparently.